Court hears Salman plea on poaching case conviction

A Jaipur court yesterday heard a plea by Bollywood superstar Salman Khan against his conviction by a trial court in the 1998 Kankani blackbuck poaching case and fixed August 3 and 4 for further hearing. The hearing on Salman’s appeal continued for around three hours in pre- and postlunch hours in the court of district and sessions judge Chandra Kumar Sonagara. Salman was convicted for shooting and killing two blackbucks in Kankani village near Jodhpur on the night of October 1, 1998, during the shooting of a film. His co-stars and co-accused Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Neelam and Sonali Bendre, who had accompanied the actor that night, were however acquitted.